My Angel

I built her with the whitest snow the clearest ice the brightest flames I built her with the softest clouds the shiniest metal the prettiest piece of sky I built her with the sharpest glass the loveliest feather the sweetest nectar from the reddest rose I built her out of dreams and out of the sweetest chocolates of all I built her out of my heart and out of love I built her

She soared across a sky of hope She nestled safely in a cloud She flew down and laughed in wonder as her fingers skimmed the trembling grass

She marveled as she hugged a tree felt the rugged lines that braved so much She kissed a baby's little toe and carefully caressed a flower's petal

She held a cold, smooth, black stone and stroked its worn surface She closed her fingers one by one around it and cooed softly, cradling the stone Then finally she opened her fist and the stone was a stone no more but a white, white dove She smiled as the whitest dove of all spread its wings and flew away away away

She whispered secrets to the grass and listened as they whispered ones back clapping her hands in the purest joy and laughing a sweet, untainted laugh

She laid a finger on a dying sapling She sang a little song and watched in admiration as the sapling grew big and strong

She watched in awe as a beetle crawled across her finger She brought it close to her heart and whispered: "Prettiest creature of them all."

She circled around an old, old man Who lay, eyes closed, breath hard, and strained, and slow She kissed his wrinkled, weary cheek She held his tired hand and then his eyes opened wide his breath quickened he leapt right out of bed and strangest thing of all he danced!

She sang with the birds She jumped with the frogs She listened with the rabbits She ran with the horses She flew the butterflies She whispered with the wind

And then one day she told me She said she had to go I pleaded with her begged her not to leave But she shook her head so sadly and said she had no choice

She said good-bye to the animals and to the trees and the bugs and the grass and the clouds and the skies and then finally to me

She said to remember times sweetest of all She said to be brave and joyful and happy and sad She said to be determined and do what you must She said to recall that our hearts are all the same that words can hurt and smiles can heal She said to sing and to dance to laugh and to smile And finally she whispered She will always be with me in my heart with my dreams and my love to guide me and teach me to show what's right and what's wrong to love me

She flew up, up, up into the promising sky and gave me one last look a smile resting on her lips a tear dropping from her crystal eyes "Don't forget," she murmured. "Don't forget."

And then she disappeared a small white dot in a big blue sky a small white dot forever gone

I wept a tear and then another falling down my cheeks and landing on the crying grass

And then I put my hand on my heart and felt warmth encompass me felt her smile felt her laugh felt her love, most of all And I knew

She was there

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